Advance Skill Training Institutes

Advance Skill Training Institutes (ASTI) are envisaged as sector specific Centres of skill training, set up in collaboration with industry partners or associations, to drive skill development, apprenticeship, incubation centres, Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL), setting up of Skill Training Institutes & entrepreneurship enablement. The industries may invest and set up state of the art centres to provide the candidates, with hands-on training, that are as per the industry standards. The Centres would target skill upgradation of the workforce which will make them ready for absorption in the industry. The ASTIs will be instrumental in implementing the Recruit- Train- Deploy Policy.